Sentence examples for awkward end from inspiring English sources

"I didn't want to have an awkward end to the date," she said.

A fittingly awkward end to three hours of hard-hitting humanitarianism, highlighting how all is askew in the world.

It was an awkward end to a three-year-old experiment which was put in place by Azim Premji himself because he felt the IT business was too complex to be run by one CEO.

By the time of my 17th birthday, hormones raging, mine was a gift as wanted as a thick jumper with the wrong neckline, an awkward end-table that fails to match the rest of the furniture or a souvenir bottle of tawny port bestowed on a teetotaller.

The loss provided an awkward ending to an emotional homecoming.

By dispatching Davydenko, Federer saved tennis from an awkward ending.

China will play Cuba for the bronze medal, an awkward ending to Olympic women's volleyball for some Chinese.

Oudin's joy ride in New York featured an awkward ending, when SI.com reported on the night of her loss to Wozniacki that her parents were in divorce proceedings, with her father, John Oudin, alleging in court documents that his wife, Leslie Oudin, and their daughter's longtime coach, Brian de Villiers, had been involved in an affair.

On the other hand, if you open your conversation with an obvious come-on, if things turn awkward, ending the conversation prematurely will be a little more embarrassing because it will be obvious that you've failed at what you set out to do.

– Decision Maker 007 "It's been extremely expensive, extremely awkward and…we end up having to pick the low hanging fruit and sort of concentrate on…those communities that are a little bit more densely populated but then we're not getting the people who need the care the most".

After more than a quarter-century of enshrinements the hall of fame has begun to tie some of its more awkward loose ends.